Fedora's Gaim no longer works with Yahoo

Christopher A. Williams chrisw01 at privatei.com
Thu Sep 25 14:37:47 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 08:19, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> On 2003-09-25 at 15:01, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > Anyone else notice that the version of Gaim that comes from fedora.us no
> > longer works with Yahoo. Yahoo has updated their system so that it
> > apparently requires some changes and they are no longer accepting
> > connections from Gaim. Ymessenger 1.0.4 for Linux does work - the RH9
> > RPM installs correctly on Severn.
> > 
> > Since I use more than Yahoo Messenger, it would be nice to see an update
> > to Gaim out there. I think there is a newer version which does work
> > correctly.
> 
> Until Raw Hide gets the new gaim, you can use:
> 
> http://amorsen.dk/rpms/gaim-0.69-2.i386.rpm
> http://amorsen.dk/srpms/gaim-0.69-2.src.rpm
> 
> Basically just the Raw Hide gaim upgraded to 0.69. There is a small
> patch to work around a bug in po/Makefile.in.in. Yahoo works great.
> 

Thanks! That took care of the problem.

Cheers,

Chris

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